# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Ships Of Earth

> Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [The Ships Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/show-him-who

## More from this book

> I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

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> Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/maybe-what-we-really.md)

> Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/just-because-you.md)